Just 29% of Americans approve of Trump's decision to fire Comey

"We can make a fast decision", Trump told reporters Saturday aboard Air Force One before flying to Lynchburg, Virginia to deliver a commencement address at Liberty University.

Mike Lee (R-Utah) said Sunday that President Donald Trump is "fully cooperating" with the FBI investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, despite Trump's explicit acknowledgement that he fired FBI Director James Comey over the Russia probe.

Fox News' John Roberts pointed out that several top Democrat lawmakers have said they will refuse to consider a new FBI director unless a special prosecutor is appointed to lead the Trump-Russia investigation.

Clapper spoke following Trump's sudden firing of Comey last week, which drew sharp criticism because it came amid the FBI's probe into Russian Federation meddling in the 2016 presidential election and possible ties between Russian Federation and the Trump presidential campaign.

The White House refused to say Monday whether it would comply with congressional requests to produce possible recordings of conversations between President Trump and White House visitors.

Trump on Tuesday fired FBI Director James Comey, based on Attorney General Office recommendations and the president's view that Comey "wasn't doing a good job". Lawmakers from both parties are urging the president to steer clear of picking any politicians for Comey's replacement. Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general whose memo was used as a pretext for firing Comey, is also participating.

Democrats are threatening to stall the hearings on a new Federal Bureau of Investigation director unless Rosenstein agrees to name a special counsel (to replace himself in overseeing the Federal Bureau of Investigation probe into Russian interference in the election).

Comey is said to be concerned with the prospects of numerous initiatives he was pursuing inside the bureau, but believes FBI agents and personnel will continue to conduct themselves with professionalism.

Department of Justice officials were holding interviews all weekend to fill Comey's spot. Hudson, who was appointed by George W. Bush, struck down a major component of the Affordable Care Act in 2010. Thirty two percent of survey respondents said they had no opinion of Trump's decision to fire America's chief law enforcement officer.

Graham says that means ruling out former Rep. Mike Rogers of MI or Sen. She is a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School, a former assistant secretary of Homeland Security in the Obama administration, host of the national security podcast The SCIF and founder of Kayyem Solutions, a security consulting firm.

-Rogers. The FBI Agents Association says it believes his diverse background makes him the best choice.

"The fact that they had a private conversation in which the president, by his own admission, was discussing the future of Director Comey in that job and the president brings up whether he's under investigation?"